Canada has been rated the eighth safest country for women to travel alone this summer, according to a travel study of more than 30 countries.
Bounce, a luggage storage company, looked at data on various aspects of gender equality and women’s safety, including domestic violence laws, homicide rates and women’s sense of safety. walking at night in their country, in order to create a ranked list, released this month.
According to the list, the safest country for women traveling alone is Ireland, with Austria, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland rounding out the top five.
“The Emerald Isle scores particularly high for the laws it has in place to protect women from violence, as well as for local attitudes towards violence against women,” the report said. study on Ireland’s first tier.
Spain came sixth, followed by Portugal, Canada, the Netherlands and Poland, to complete the top 10.
Canada scored 6.67 out of ten for its overall safety for women traveling alone, compared to 7.88 for Ireland.
Colombia was considered the least safe for women to travel alone out of the 34 countries included. But the United States barely beat it, coming in at 32nd on the list just above Costa Rica.
The assessment was based on seven different measures, including the percentage of women in this country who reported being victims of violence, the number of female victims of homicide per 100,000 women, the percentage of women who reported feeling safe when walking alone at night, the percentage of women in this country who agree that a husband can be justified in being violent against his wife, and how strong the laws regarding domestic violence are in this country.
It also included each country’s ranking in a generalized safety index created by Numbeo, a large database of user-contributed data, and the country’s ranking in the Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report. global.
The seven categories added up to an overall security score.
Canada took first place in one of the individual categories, with the study finding that Canada had the lowest rate of reported domestic violence.
“In Canada, only 1.9% of women say they have experienced violence from a partner in their lifetime, which is 20 times less than in the worst country on the list,” the study states. .
Canada is also tied with more than 10 other countries for having the best domestic violence laws that provide “protection to women from domestic violence, without discrimination against women’s rights.”
Japan, ranked 11th on the list, and Norway had the lowest female homicide rates and Norway had the highest score for feeling safe walking around at night, while Ireland had the highest rate lowest level of acceptance of violence against women, with only 1% of women saying they think a man is sometimes right to beat his partner.
Most categories used data collected by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an organization that collects socioeconomic data in its member countries for research and policy analysis. Nearly 40 countries belong to the OECD, including Canada.
The percentage of women who feel safe walking at night comes from a specific 2021 OECD survey, while the homicide data comes from the World Bank.